A very touching story about your mother, Frances. I enjoyed reading this. I have lost both my parents. It's such an incredibly painful thing to go through.
The grief never goes away. It becomes easier to live with over time, but it never goes. I lost a sister in 2012, my mother in 2014, and my father in 2023. I can tell you that nothing even so much as prepared me for the loss.
I lost my mother in 2017 and both my father and my niece in 2018. Annie committed suicide. I saw her last Facebook post but didn't realise its significance. I wish to this day I had understood what it meant and tried to stop her.
Over five years later, we still don't have proper mental health services in the UK, nor adequate housing for vulnerable people (Annie had been homeless). I should campaign for this too!
I had a sister who was mentally handicapped and mentally ill. The solution here in the US was give her lots of drugs to control her behavior. She slurred words and walked like she had Parkinson's from the drugs. I think she was taking about 13 pills per day. Because she was mentally handicapped, she became a ward of the state and was able to live in a home where she got 24-hour care. Otherwise, schizophrenic people here in the US often end up on the streets.
A very touching story about your mother, Frances. I enjoyed reading this. I have lost both my parents. It's such an incredibly painful thing to go through.
Thanks Amy. I'm so sorry. I too have lost both my parents. My father died of a brain tumour in 2018. The grief never goes.
The grief never goes away. It becomes easier to live with over time, but it never goes. I lost a sister in 2012, my mother in 2014, and my father in 2023. I can tell you that nothing even so much as prepared me for the loss.
I lost my mother in 2017 and both my father and my niece in 2018. Annie committed suicide. I saw her last Facebook post but didn't realise its significance. I wish to this day I had understood what it meant and tried to stop her.
Over five years later, we still don't have proper mental health services in the UK, nor adequate housing for vulnerable people (Annie had been homeless). I should campaign for this too!
I had a sister who was mentally handicapped and mentally ill. The solution here in the US was give her lots of drugs to control her behavior. She slurred words and walked like she had Parkinson's from the drugs. I think she was taking about 13 pills per day. Because she was mentally handicapped, she became a ward of the state and was able to live in a home where she got 24-hour care. Otherwise, schizophrenic people here in the US often end up on the streets.